Gender integration in food-system policies: an adapted policy assessment framework
Food systems are complex and include multifaceted processes in food production, aggregation, processing, distribution, consumption and post-consumption disposal of food products. Ensuring gender equality within food systems is important because they connect various domains, such as health and nutrit...
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| author | Mawia, Harriet Muchiri, Caroline Frimpong-Wiafe, Belinda Enahoro, Dolapo K. |
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| description | Food systems are complex and include multifaceted processes in food production, aggregation, processing, distribution, consumption and post-consumption disposal of food products. Ensuring gender equality within food systems is important because they connect various domains, such as health and nutrition, climate change, environment, fisheries, livestock and agriculture. This interconnectedness within food systems leads to significant implications for human health, including nutrition and diets, as well as climate and environment-related indicators. Interactions of gender within these domains complicate the equitable derivation and distribution of benefits from agricultural activities by women and men. Therefore, policies governing food systems in low- and middle-income countries need to integrate gender-responsive approaches into their design, implementation and monitoring, recognizing the multifaceted processes of food systems and how gender interacts with these processes. The existing tools and frameworks that assess gender integration within policies about food systems do not extend beyond the scope of agricultural production into other interacting domains. This working paper addresses this gap by developing an enhanced framework for evaluating gender integration in policy documents within and beyond agriculture. The thematic reach of this framework includes agriculture, livestock, fisheries, climate change, health and nutrition, environment, and natural resource management. By leveraging a gender and food-systems framework that deconstructs food-systems functions, and how they impact women and men differently, the framework offers structured guidance for incorporating gender-related considerations within policy documents relating to food systems. The framework also has implications for participatory policy processes—design, implementation and monitoring—that aim to foster gender-equitable benefits from food-systems interventions. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1741362025-11-06T05:18:03Z Gender integration in food-system policies: an adapted policy assessment framework Mawia, Harriet Muchiri, Caroline Frimpong-Wiafe, Belinda Enahoro, Dolapo K. gender analysis food systems Food systems are complex and include multifaceted processes in food production, aggregation, processing, distribution, consumption and post-consumption disposal of food products. Ensuring gender equality within food systems is important because they connect various domains, such as health and nutrition, climate change, environment, fisheries, livestock and agriculture. This interconnectedness within food systems leads to significant implications for human health, including nutrition and diets, as well as climate and environment-related indicators. Interactions of gender within these domains complicate the equitable derivation and distribution of benefits from agricultural activities by women and men. Therefore, policies governing food systems in low- and middle-income countries need to integrate gender-responsive approaches into their design, implementation and monitoring, recognizing the multifaceted processes of food systems and how gender interacts with these processes. The existing tools and frameworks that assess gender integration within policies about food systems do not extend beyond the scope of agricultural production into other interacting domains. This working paper addresses this gap by developing an enhanced framework for evaluating gender integration in policy documents within and beyond agriculture. The thematic reach of this framework includes agriculture, livestock, fisheries, climate change, health and nutrition, environment, and natural resource management. By leveraging a gender and food-systems framework that deconstructs food-systems functions, and how they impact women and men differently, the framework offers structured guidance for incorporating gender-related considerations within policy documents relating to food systems. The framework also has implications for participatory policy processes—design, implementation and monitoring—that aim to foster gender-equitable benefits from food-systems interventions. 2025-03-30 2025-04-11T04:54:18Z 2025-04-11T04:54:18Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/174136 en Open Access application/pdf CGIAR GENDER Impact Platform Mawia, H., Muchiri, C., Frimpong-Wiafe, B. and Enahoro, D. 2025. Gender integration in food-system policies: an adapted policy assessment framework. CGIAR GENDER Impact Platform Working Paper #025. Nairobi, Kenya: CGIAR GENDER Impact Platform. |
| spellingShingle | gender analysis food systems Mawia, Harriet Muchiri, Caroline Frimpong-Wiafe, Belinda Enahoro, Dolapo K. Gender integration in food-system policies: an adapted policy assessment framework |
| title | Gender integration in food-system policies: an adapted policy assessment framework |
| title_full | Gender integration in food-system policies: an adapted policy assessment framework |
| title_fullStr | Gender integration in food-system policies: an adapted policy assessment framework |
| title_full_unstemmed | Gender integration in food-system policies: an adapted policy assessment framework |
| title_short | Gender integration in food-system policies: an adapted policy assessment framework |
| title_sort | gender integration in food system policies an adapted policy assessment framework |
| topic | gender analysis food systems |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/174136 |
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